“ At the tip of July 2023, two younger cattle egrets were detected at Altmühlsee.
Since 1994, water has been pumped from the Danube to the highest of the canal
using pumps at the five locks on the southern ramp
of the canal, from the place it flows downwards over another barrage into the Rothsee, the place
the water is saved and, if necessary, in two other ways can be delivered to the
Regnitz. The Danube-Essential switch system contains a total of three lakes, including the Altmühlsee with a ring dam and two dams with Brombach
and Rothsee, which include 5 dams as a result of their pre-dams, three hydroelectric power plants on the dams and the Hilpoltstein lock, the canal routes to the
Altmühlsee and from there to Brombachsee in addition to 27 different weirs on watercourses, a
few of which have been expanded to accommodate greater water stream.
This water then flows via a energy plant with three megawatts of
electrical power at the Hilpoltstein lock with a fall height of 24.67 m.
In the years 1994-2013, a median of ninety seven million m³ of water were transferred to the
Rothsee yearly, the natural inflow of the small Roth was
around 1995-2013 on average 27.9 million m³ of water was over The water sheath was transferred,
after the end of the compensation, a median of
26.5 million m³ was transferred in 1999-2013 and 28.7 million m³ had been given from the Brombachsee,
whereby eleven million m³ of additional inflow is anticipated
from the catchment area of the Brombach every year. ”